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A young flood victim looks out from a relief camp in Nowshera, northwestern Pakistan on Friday. Pakistan's northwest, the first region to be hit by the floods and the most devastated, now has roads lined with tents and tens of thousands of displaced waiting to go home. Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Children take shelter under a trailer during heavy rains in Noida, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday. Parivartan Sharma/Reuters

People wave national flags as they listen to a speech by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a meeting with students at Havana's University on Friday. Castro warned again on Friday of the dangers of nuclear war in his first speech before the Cuban public since falling ill in 2006.Enrique De La Osa/Reuters

A Muslim man walks in Jerusalem's Old City on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. Amir Cohen/Reuters

Ducati MotoGP rider Casey Stoner of Australia takes a curve during the first practice session of the San Marino motorcycling Grand Prix at the Misano circuit on Friday.Max Rossi/Reuters

Local resident Russell Lowe kayaks along a beach road during hurricane Earl in Nags Head, North Carolina, on Friday.Richard Clement/Reuters

A Pakistani boy cries as he is bathed at a relief camp in Nowshera, in flood-damaged northwestern Pakistan, on Friday.Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius shows a thumbs up sign before competing in the men's 400m race during the Palio della Quercia Games in Rovereto. Having previously been banned, the runner made headlines two years ago after winning his battle to race with able-bodied athletes. He then failed to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics or the 2009 world championships in Berlin but his dream of reaching next year's world championships and London's 2012 Games burns brighter than ever. Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters

A member of the Philippine mobile strike force takes his position in a mock hostage scenario during an annual critical incident management field training exercise at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City, in metropolitan Manila, on Friday.Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters

A flood victim bathes her newborn baby with the help of relief camp companions in Pakistan's Sindh Province on Friday. Severe flooding in Pakistan has destroyed farmland, killed livestock, and displaced millions of people, causing damage the government has estimated at $43 billion, or almost one quarter of the nation's 2009-10 gross domestic product. Athar Hussain/Reuters

An aircraft preparing to land flies over Muslims gathered to offer prayers on the rooftop of a mosque during the fourth Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Mumbai, India. Muslims around the world abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

A Saudi Shiite woman takes part in the Jerusalem Day demonstration at al-Yarmouk camp near Damascus, Syria, on Friday.Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters

Soldiers of a German honor guard take their positions before the arrival of Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski at the Chancellery in Berlin on Friday.Michael Dalder/Reuters

Flood victim Mohammad Ramzan leans on the doorway left after his house was washed away by floods in the village of Mehmood Kot in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab Province on Friday.Faisal Mahmood/Reuters

A giant panda cub lies inside its birth box while its mother left for some minutes to get food at the Vienna Zoo on Thursday. The cub, whose sex is not yet determined, weighs about 200 grams, twice as much as on the day of its birth, August 23, the zoo reports. Eveline Dungl/Tiergarten Schoenbrunn/Reuters